Comments on: Today’s Miscellaneous Local Links

By: Boomkat

Boomkat — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:01:47 +0000

Sam Ubl is amazing & you are all losers! I know him in real life & he rules. & he loves LDC Soundsystem. & he is a baaaaaaaaaaaad neoclassicist muthafucka.

Nobody believes me, do they? It’s true. I am net-stalking my friends.

By: ?

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:04:53 +0000

Hmmm, indie. Not sure I agree with you. I did a quick search of Rolling Stone covers on the magazine’s website. That review ran on Dec. 7, 2000 (the one you claim is a one-star review in the magazine) and Linkin Park wasn’t on the cover until March 14, 2002.

Unless I’m making a mistake?

By: indie

indie — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:39:57 +0000

? - Yeah, the first time I really noticed this was years ago when Linkin Park put out their first album. I read a one star review and just one issue later (it may have been two, but either way it was right quick) they were being heralded as Rock Gods on the cover after "One Step Closer" went big on radio.

RS website has the album rated at 2.5 stars, but I have the hard original copy in a big cardboard box because I am an idiot and don't throw magazines away.

But all of this is neither here nor there nor local.

By: richg

richg — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:11:10 +0000

Marsh, being the deesh he is, forgot to mention how handy “lol” is too.

By: mike s

mike s — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:05:52 +0000

More discussion of the review here and here.

By: stevemarsh

stevemarsh — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:54:29 +0000

I’d say the problem is with the former, Mikey. Here’s a tip from a professional: when I’m conveying irony, I rock a “JK!!” at the end. Or I use the word “didactic” in there somewhere. Either one makes you come off like a deesh though. JK!!

By: richg

richg — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:21:53 +0000

Mike S...Maybe if you used more emoticons?

I know Pitchfork isn't exactly an AP venue, but I'd much rather read a music review that focuses on music and gets to something resembling a point, rather than calling out the didactic qualities of the musician's crotch, or some other bit of random idiocy.

MinneapolitanMusic seems to have the right idea, at least in my book.

By: mike s

mike s — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:01:30 +0000

Steve, either I need to work on conveying irony or you need to work on detecting it.

By: ?

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:52:45 +0000

Almost as great for that as they are for handing out 1 star reviews, only to put that same artist on the cover an issue later after the album sells a bajillion copies.

I’m not a huge Rolling Stone Magazine fan, but can you name a specific example — just one — where this happened?

By: stevemarsh

stevemarsh — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:26:15 +0000

Too perfect. Mike S complains about how the pitchfork critic writes about himself when he should stick to the record, and then Mike S writes in first person throughout his review of the pitchfork critic’s review. Then he throws in a show-offy reference to fucking Mogwai. Circle Jerk City and Mike S. is the mayor.

That said, Pitchfork stinks.